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		<title>Washington Pre-Occupied</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/08/washington-pre-occupied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest question in America these days is how to revive the economy. The biggest question among activists now occupying Wall Street and dozens of other cities is how to strike back against the nation&#8217;s almost unprecedented concentration of income, wealth, and political power in the top 1 percent. The two questions are related. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth about the American Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/02/the-truth-about-the-american-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/02/the-truth-about-the-american-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It&#8217;s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down. Home prices are down. Jobs and wages are going nowhere. It&#8217;s vital that we understand the truth about the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boehner: Extortion is My Game</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/16/boehner-extortion-is-my-game/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/16/boehner-extortion-is-my-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 19:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Majority]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future &#8220;Give us trillions in cuts in Medicare and Medicaid or we blow up the economy.&#8221;  This was &#8211; stripped of its politician&#8217;s gloss &#8212; the message that House Speaker John Boehner delivered to Wall Street last week, in discussing Republican demands as the price for raising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Double Dip Recessioin for 2012?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/02/a-double-dip-recessioin-for-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/02/a-double-dip-recessioin-for-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[from Robert Kuttner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush tax cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama Election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quantitative Easing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect Economists are painting a pretty bleak picture of the economic outlook between now and the November 2012 election. Will this hurt President Obama&#8217;s re-election chances? Or will voters blame the Party of No? That, of course, partly depends on what kind of campaign Obama runs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economic Truth Nobody Will Admit: We&#8217;re Heading Back Toward a Double-Dip</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/31/the-economic-truth-nobody-will-admit-were-heading-back-toward-a-double-dip/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/31/the-economic-truth-nobody-will-admit-were-heading-back-toward-a-double-dip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double dip recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Third World America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Why aren&#8217;t Americans being told the truth about the economy? We&#8217;re heading in the direction of a double dip &#8212; but you&#8217;d never know it if you listened to the upbeat messages coming out of Wall Street and Washington. Consumers are 70 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Wall Street&#8217;s Euphoric birthday Has Almost Nothing to Do with a Buoyant Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/11/why-wall-streets-euphoric-birthday-has-almost-nothing-to-do-with-a-buoyant-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/11/why-wall-streets-euphoric-birthday-has-almost-nothing-to-do-with-a-buoyant-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley What a difference two years makes. On March 9, 2009 the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit the bottom &#8212; closing at a 12-year low of 6,547. Today the Dow is soaring well over 12,000. From its peak in October, 2007 until its trough two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Economic Lesson China Could Teach Us</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/20/the-real-economic-lesson-china-could-teach-us/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/20/the-real-economic-lesson-china-could-teach-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boeing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Highlighting today&#8217;s summit between Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama is China&#8217;s agreement to buy $45 billion of American exports. The president says this will create more American jobs. That&#8217;s not exactly right. It will create more profits for American companies but relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Prediction</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/01/new-years-prediction/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/01/new-years-prediction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley What will happen to the US economy in 2011? If you&#8217;re referring to profits of big corporations and Wall Street, next year is likely to be a good one. But if you&#8217;re referring to average American workers, far from good. The two American economies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade War Is Here – and We’ve Disarmed</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/04/trade-war-is-here-%e2%80%93-and-we%e2%80%99ve-disarmed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/04/trade-war-is-here-%e2%80%93-and-we%e2%80%99ve-disarmed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[from Robert Kuttner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China Us Debt]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=5764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect Last Wednesday, by a wide bipartisan margin of 348-79, the House passed a bill giving the executive branch authority to impose retaliatory tariffs on a wide range of Chinese exports. The bill was intended to give the Obama Administration leverage (which the White House seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Road to Clean Energy Economy, America is Stuck in Traffic</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/09/on-road-to-clean-energy-economy-america-is-stuck-in-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/09/on-road-to-clean-energy-economy-america-is-stuck-in-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BlueGreen Alliance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Foster By David Foster Executive Director, BlueGreen Alliance On our drive to the clean energy future, we are stuck in traffic. The BlueGreen Alliance continued its cross-country trip when our &#8220;The Job&#8217;s Not Done&#8221; Tour Bus participated in Detroit&#8217;s Labor Day parade with the United Autoworkers. We started August 16 in Carson, California, and [...]]]></description>
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